V.A. - ARTEFACTS OF AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VOL. II 1974 - 1983 (2CD - USED m-/vg+)

"Volume II documents the explosion of Australian experimental music practice from the mid 1970s; from the use of synthesisers and computers, through to the radical fringes of post-punk, and to the beginnings of industrial and dark wave. This double CD set complete with 16 page booklet features one of Warren Burt's first compositions completed in Australia, the Loop Orchestra's first performance, South Australian industrial noise/punk cabaret, Melbourne post-punk minimalism, mid-1970s Brisbane Dadaist noise/audio collage, early Sydney aleatoric electronica, and much more. Warren Burt: "Nighthawk, part 3 Bittern" excerpt (1975-6), Ron Nagorcka: "Atom Bomb" excerpt (1977), The Loop Orchestra: "First recording, live to air, the percussion section of the Orchestra" excerpt (1983), Forced Audience: "Forced Audience" excerpt (1974-5), Ros Bandt: "Variations II (II - flute & synthesiser)" excerpt (1974), Carl Vine: "Block" excerpt (1975), Paul Turner: "Panels V" (1975), Tristram Cary: "Soft Walls" excerpt (1980), Asher Bilu & Duncan McGuire: "AMAZE" excerpt (1982), Browning Mummery: "Do the Eyes of the Dead Retain Pictures" (1983), Severed Heads: "Dance" (1980), Ian Hartley: "Train Je Taime" (1981), Kurt Volentine: "Vortex Street" (1983). Essendon Airport: "Do the Flowerpot" (1978),Tsk Tsk Tsk: "Nice Noise Theme" (1979), The Primitive Calculators: "I Can't Stop It" (1979), Purple Vulture Shit: "Do a Shit" (1983), Voigt-465: "F1" (1979), Signals: "Illuminator & Icebreaker" excerpt (1979), Ad Hoc: "Blue from Beyond the Sea"' excerpt (1980), Rik Rue-Jon Rose-Peter Kelly: "Eating Cabbage" (1978), Jon Rose-Tony Hobbs: "In Memorian Tony Hobbs" (1978), A+D: "(T)D+T" (1980), Justinstinkt: "Drainpipe" (1981), Arthur Cantrill: "The Second Journey (to Uluru)" excerpt (1981), Les Gilbert: "The Genoa River, Wangerabell" excerpt (1983), IDA: "MeMoMu" (1980), Sarah Hopkins: "Double Whirly Duo" (1983)." (label info)